Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-27
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

THE rice crop of Chicago for the Sc a.
son of 1887 amounts to 392,O0O,O0O.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY has a popula-
ton of LA 1000.
Too MORE of the cholera patients taken
from the steamer Alesia have died. This
makes the total deaths twenty-eight.
The Nebraska Synod, which has been
in session at Lincoln, adjourned Monday.
The church is in fourishing condition.
AT Elgin, Ill.,, Monday, 1900 pounds
of butter were sold on ths Board of
Trade at 20 cents per pound.
In seyen-inning game Monday at
Minneapolis, the Chicagos defeated the
Minneapolis club, II to Z.
THE value of permanent school proper
ty in Dakota is not far from $3,OO0,0OO.
It has increased from less than $4,000 in
1877.
WILLIAM WALKER an importer of dress
trimmings at New York, has made an as
signment. His liabilities are about $685.
900 and his assets 100000.
JUDGE JAMESON denied the motion of
the convicted County boodlers for new
trial.
A PITTsBURG woman who brought suit
for $4,000 damages because she was
kissed against her will had her case
promptly thrown out of court.
Mrs. JAMES A. GARFIELD, and her
daughter, Miss Mollie, who were passen-
gers on the steamer Arizona from New
York, have arrived at Liverpool.
BoRERs for gas at Lincoln, ILL.,, have at
the depth of 500 feet struck well of wa
ter, which is boiling up with roaring
sound from below in sncn volumes as to
threaten an inudation.
A DECISION was rendered Wednesday, at
Pittsburg, which takes the Pittsburg
and LAKE Erie Road out of the hands of
the trustees and places the Vanderbilts
in control of the property.
AN Easton manufacturer has purchased
the lands about Hutchinson, Kan, where
salt has been found in large quantities;
machinery was forwarded for mining IT..
YANKToN, which was the Cathedral city
of the diocese of South Dakota, gave
Bishop Martyr forty acres of land for
the Holy See.
THE unwilling of the Lincoln statue
will take place in Lincoln park next Sat-
urday. Addresses will be delivered by
W. G. Cloudy and Leonard SWEET. The
ceremony of unwilling the statue will be
performed by grandson of Mr.. Lincoln.
In speech at Montreal, Hon. J. A.
Chaplain, a member of the Canadian
government, spoke vigorously against
the idea of commercial union with this
country. He thinks the Americans who
favor it have political union in view.
The seventh game in the series for
the worlds championship, played Mon
day at Philadelphia, resulted: Detroit, 3;
st. Louis, 1. Detroit has now won five
games, scoring total of % runs to Is
for st. Louis.
A RESOLUTION against the advance Of
telegraphic rates, except at points where
there has been an absolute loss, was adopt
ed Wednesday by the Executive Commit
tee of the Western Union Company.
Officers were directed to make reduced
rates wherever possible.
JOHN f. HENRY and Henry E. Bowen
wholesale druggists at New York, made
an assignment Monday. They also fail
ed in 1878, owing about 100000. Ell.
Webster 81 Co., the insolyent Wholesale
liquor dealers of New York, have actual
assets of 1881, 1000, with liabilities of
$635,OOO. Charles s. Bryce, wholesale
liquor dealer at No SO Front street, New
York, failed Monday. On his stock,
valued at $118,00O, he obtained loans
aggregating $4,000.